0 CommentsNASA scientists spent months stitching together the following 2 photo montages based on images taken from the Terra satellite that orbits 435 miles above the Earth. Never before has such stunning detail been visible from space imagery, especially global weather patterns. Cool beans!
An excerpt as reported by DailyMail:
A spokesman from the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, which released the pictures, said: ‘These are spectacular “blue marble” images, which show the beauty of our small planet.’ The two pictures show opposite sides of Earth. One reveals the entire North American continent, Central America, the northern half of South America, Greenland and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, in one perfect shot. The other highlights most of Europe, Africa and Asia. However, both northern Europe and Australia are just out of the picture. Our planet’s surface covers 197 million square miles with 57 million square miles of land and the rest as water.
The original 'Blue Marble' image as taken by Apollo 17 astronauts on December 7, 1972.
'Earthrise" as taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission (the first manned mission to orbit the moon).
Taken at an altitude of 65 miles by a 35mm camera within a V-2 missile which was taken from the Germans at the end of WWII and launched in New Mexico.
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